Question: What is North Carolina’s oldest standing lighthouse?
Answer: Old Baldy on Bald Head Island is North Carolina’s oldest standing lighthouse. Completed in 1817, the 110-foot octagonal brick tower replaced a 1790s lighthouse that erosion forced builders to tear down in 1813. Its light was retired in 1935, so the title of oldest lighthouse still in service goes to Ocracoke, built in 1823.
